Thumbs Up to FRIDAY!

I took this picture after I went for my run today. I am giving FRIDAY a thumbs up, not the run. Here’s why:

I had it all planned out that I would run between 4 and 5 miles and feel good. Today at work I was pumped to hit the pavement. I wasn’t sore at all and I kept thinking about how good it would feel to run out my stress and hug sweat it out.

I headed out and half way through my first mile it happened: I turned into the world’s biggest cry baby. “My legs hurt.”  “It’s hot.”  “I can’t breath it’s so hot.”  “I’m tired.” “This doesn’t feel good.”  “I can’t do it.” And guess what? I’m entitled to have those feelings so that’s not why I got upset with myself. Why I got upset was because I LISTENED TO MY CRYBABY SIDE! I only ran 2 miles and then took a small walk after that. Boo :’(

BUT on the bright side, I actually ran and that’s much better than just sittin’ on my toosh, right? So here were the (lamey lame) stats from today’s jog:

Total Distance: 3.31 km (2.06 miles)

Total Time: 21:57

Average Speed: 9.06 km/hr

It didn’t feel like a good run during, but afterwards I got a drink of water and said to myself, “Hey you could’ve kept going you dumby!” Just kidding. I am slightly disappointed but not going to let it get me down because I got a nice little weekend planned :)

Tonight we are going to go see the new Paul Rudd & Steve Carell movie Dinner for Schmucks.

Steve Carell & Paul Rudd in Dinner for Schmucks

I’ve wanted to see this since I saw the first preview. If you know me, you know I’d follow Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Jason Segel, and Seth Rogen anywhere. They’re my favorite comedy actors. I hope it’s good!

Before I go, let me do a quick re-cap of my day.

For breakfast I had a Clif Bar. Didn’t take a picture because you all know what they look like, right? And because I forgot :) The latter more than the former.

I had oatmeal and a Orowheat thin with peanut butter for lunch. Breakfast for lunch sometimes just hits the spot!

Yum Yum

For a snack I had greek yogurt and a peach. I also had some froyo with my friend Sera. It really hit the afternoon spot.. seriously. I got SF/Low Fat Chocolate & Peanut Butter with Sugar Free PB cups. Estimated at 300-400 calories. It was only $2.62! Wahoo!

Froyo baby!

Work drug by today and was kind of stressful so I was happy to get off and come home! I took a 10 minute lay-down break on my bed before I went running, which is actually my 365 challenge picture:

18/365

So, how was your Friday, peeps? I hope it was good :)

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Day 14... Two Weeks! 14/365

I (creatively) named the title of this post “Apple Tuna 2 Salt Day” because today I: ate two apples (thus, Apple), had tuna for lunch, ONLY ran 2 loops after work (when I had planned on running 3) and the hubster and I are going to go see the new Angelina Jolie movie SALT after dinner tonight. Stupid, I know, but way less boring than “Monday and what I did”, right?

For breakfast this morning I had a pink lady apple cut up with my Fage Nonfat Greek Yogurt:

Cripsy Apple

Greek Yogurt with Cut up Apple

Where did the second apple of the day come in, you ask?? About an hour before lunch I was getting super hungry so I cut up a Fuji apple (smaller than the breakfast apple) and melted one tablespoon of PB on it. Majorly yummy snack. But I really need to get my hands on some Peanut Butter & Co. flavored peanut butter that I hear so much about over at Katie’s blog. Hmm, maybe they’ll hook it up with a free sample? :) We’ll see.

Then for lunch I made a can of Chunk Light Tuna packed in water with: 1/2 of a cucumber, 1/4 of a red onion, a handful of lettuce and one tablespoon light Mayo. Yes, yes, I NEED to give up the light mayo I just don’t like my Tuna without it! Anyway, I ate the tuna salad with two pieces of whole wheat toast:

Tuna Salad with Cucumber, Onion & Lettuce

Tuna Salad on Whole Wheat Toast

Chunky Tuna and Veggies

It was quite a filling and nom-tacular lunch. After eating, my friend and I ran to Costco to get a few things. I came home with 1-24 pack box of Clif bars, 1-16 pack box of Kashi granola bars, 1 pack (16 cans) of chunk light tuna (the big 2.5 serving cans!), and a box of  single serving Baked Lays (4 different flavors- 30 bags). A good trip! I still need to go to the normal (not humungoloidus sized) grocery store for veggies, fruit, yogurt & soymilk.. Anyway, I got a little hungry around 3pm so I had a Kashi Peanut Peanut Butter granola bar with a tall iced coffee and it did the trick. I was glad I bought those bars at Costco because there were chocolate chip cookies in the kitchen at work. Yikes!

Then I came home and went for a 2.25 mile run. I ran for 19:59:02 which means my run this afternoon in the heat was quicker than my run on Saturday night. Weird! It felt good, but I was really hot and halfway through the second loop I got a major toe cramp! I suffered through (trying to sprint the rest of the way) but stopped at two. I’m pretty bummed because I wanted to do 3 loops (3.36 miles) but it just wasn’t in the cards.

I realize to lose weight at the rate I want to lose it, I’m going to need more than 20 minutes of outdoor running per day. We are actively looking at elliptical machines, so that after I run a few miles I can come inside and do some low-to-no impact cardio for another half to full hour. Once I lose some chunk and build some strength’n'stamina, I should be able to throw down 4 miles in one run no problem. Can I just fast forward to that time, please? :)

And before I go, I’ll leave you with this awesomeness: I got some new flower hair clips last week and tried ‘em out today. Are they rad or what?

Pink & Black Hair Flowers

Oh and, have a “peace”ful Monday night :)

Peace!

XOXO, Shelby :)

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Day 11...11/365

Sorry so blurry, the person who took the picture couldn’t keep the camera still! Want to know what I’m doing dressed like this? I work at an R&D kitchen for a large poultry company that makes a vast array of products. I was bagging and heat sealing raw chicken wings, tenders, and boneless skinless breasts just to see hows it done and say that I have :)

Friday… How was yours? Mine was…

Friday was overall a good day. I waited for it for the whole week and when it came I was excited. I got some Starbucks mid-morning around 9:45 am:

Venti Cafe Americano with Non-fat Milk % 10 Splendas!

It was more weak-sauce that it normally is but that’s okay, a bad drink at Starbucks is still a good drink, isn’t it? But the caffiene in this drink (and in the first cup of black coffee I had after an hour of work) simply didn’t cut it so mid-afternoon, after lunch, my colleague co-worker friend that I work with gave me a piece of this:

Rockstar Gum, 80mg Caffeine for 2 pcs

Surprise, surprise, this gum tasted awful. The pieces are thick and hard to chew through. The worst part? I could barely chew through one piece and I didn’t feel the effect of the 40mg’s of caffeine. It was icky. I spent the rest of the afternoon yawning at my desk, feeling sluggish from staying up so late the night before. (Edit: Remember why I stayed up late? You can read about that in the 5th paragraph of this post, here) When I got off work, I came home and took a short (not really short at 45 minutes, but whatever!) nap and felt rejuvenated. So here’s what I did (while Matt went to his friends house to drink & play ping pong):

I edged the back yard, mowed the back yard, vacuumed the whole house, did three loads of laundry, took out all the garbage, cleaned the kitchen, did the dishes, cleaned the guest bathroom, cleaned the master bathroom, made the bed, and took out a few boxes of garbage that have been just sitting in our spare bedroom for months. THEN I took a hot shower, ran to Safeway to rent these DVD’s:

Up In The Air with George Clooney

and

The Time Traveler's Wife with Eric Bana

and I also got Leon some chewy meat flavored stick things (nasty), some Greek yogurt for breakfast, a Turkey sandwich and a big ‘ol jug of Diet Peach Snapple. I watched Up in the Air first and it was mediocre, at best. I really don’t see how any of those people got Academy Award nom’s for it, but whatever. I fell asleep about 30 minutes into The Time Traveler’s Wife but what I did see I wasn’t interested in. So yay for me for picking two bomb’s (IMO) on Friday night.

I got to bed around 1am and then Matt called me for a ride home around 2am. I woke up at 6 (Matt was up, not feeling well) and did some laundry then fell asleep on the couch. I woke up at 9am and cut up a peach and put it in my Fage Nonfat Plain Greek yogurt along with a pinch of Chocolate Whey Protein and a tiny bit of plain Oatmeal. It was DEELEESHOWS. I then toasted up a Orowheat Whole Grain Bread Thin and split this with Matt, putting two teaspoons of peanut butter on my portion. I followed this amazing breakfast with some hot, plain, black coffee. Yum.

Now we’re planning our day. We’re doing our traditional lunch at Baja Fresh this afternoon and maybe going to see SALT after that. Don’t know yet. But tomorrow…

My sister and I are going to Tori Spelling’s book signing & reading at Borders in Sacramento. Should be fun! It would be cool to get a picture with her!

Hope everyone has a cool Saturday and I will post again tonight!

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I’ll admit. I write a lot of my Monday morning posts on Sunday night. I cheat, so what? Everyone cheats sometime, right? I mean, the idea of getting up an hour or two early to write before I get ready for work is nice, and I’m sure I’d feel like a rockstar if I did it, but it’s not happening. As it is, I’m still trying to get back to morning work-outs. And that hasn’t happened yet, either. So until then, some of my morning posts will remain to be done the night before. Now that you know my secret, I don’t have any more secrets, so I’m trustworthy again :)

Anyway, what did everyone do this weekend? I had a pretty eventful weekend, especially since we didn’t really go anywhere.

Friday night I saw Inception with my husband and some friends from work, as I mentioned here, and it was amaaaazing. Then Saturday we slept in, got Starbucks, relaxed around the house, went out to lunch (remember–I mentioned Chipotle screwed up my salad.. and now I’m never going back!?) and basically just enjoyed our day together. We went to Safeway and got a few groceries (mainly Watermelon, since I’ve been craving it for a month!) and a DVD. We ended up getting Public Enemies instead of the Wolfman, because Matt said he wanted to see Public Enemies. And then he only watched the first 20 minutes of it, so I could’ve got Wolfman :) But PE was pretty good. Not what I thought it was going to be, but good. I am pretty well-read on the 1930′s American gangster period, mostly because of my love for Alcatraz, but also because my grandma got a ride from a famous gangster in the 1930′s when she was just a child. Pretty cool, huh?

Johnny Depp did an amazing job, as he always does in every movie he’s in. Christian Bale did a good job, too, although he wasn’t in the movie all that much. Did you know that the character that Bale played actually killed himself in real life? No one knows if it was suicide or an accident,  but rumor has it the man killed himself with the same gun he used to help take down Depp’s character, John Dillinger. Weird, huh?

After watching that, I was in the mood for a scary movie but it was too late to start one. So Sunday I watched The Hitcher, with Sophia Bush. And when that didn’t cut it, I decided to watch The Ring. It’s funny because I’ve seen both of these movies and own them both but it had been such a long time since I’d seen them that I kind of forgot if I liked them or not! The Hitcher was slightly scarier than I remember, but still not super great. Definitely not awful but still not great. Why? A few of the things that happen are unbelievable, even for a scary slasher-esqe movie. And The Ring? Well, I didn’t exactly remember the whole plot line precisely but it was pretty good. More eerie than scary. Maybe it was scarier when it came out? I still enjoyed myself watching it, though. I also think Naomi Watts is a good actress, so it was good seeing her in something since it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of her movies.

(The creepiest thing from The Ring is when the girl climbs out of the TV!) I’ve never seen The Ring Two. Have any of you?

I did take a picture yesterday (Sunday) for the 365 challenge, I just haven’t posted it. But I’ll post it tonight along with today’s.

And I plan to post some of the maternity pictures I took yesterday, too. The “shoot” went really well. I forgot how much I like talking to Kim! She looks great, too. One of those petite girls who just gets a round tummy and stays pretty slender everywhere else. Awful, isn’t it! :)

Hope everyone has a good Monday. I hope mine goes by fast (the work part, at least!) because I have so much to do! I successfully got no housework done, no reading done, and nothing else, either! So I have a full week of cleaning, laundry, photo editing, and all the other daily things. Oye! I’m tired already!

Happy Monday, peeps.

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So because of my first maternity shoot ((edit: I’m not a real photographer!! Remember that!!)) tomorrow, I am posting some cute maternity photos I found on Flickr & Deviant Art. There’s tons! But since I don’t have a studio and a knack for creativity, mine will probably be far less cool than these. Still wanted to post them anyway :)

It’s Saturday. Matt and I have officially done nothing but it’s been nice. Well, I’ve done laundry and we got lunch at Chipotle (where I got a veggie salad and they didn’t put veggies in it!! So it was just lettuce and vegetarian black beans. Boo! So I had a piece of french bread with it… total bummer!) and that’s about it. I want to be productive but I just feel so lazy! I may go for a run later, but my hamstrings are still pretty sore from my Thursday night run so we’ll see. My only other plans for today are going to Safeway and getting watermelon, yogurt, and a DVD. Sounds fun, huh :)

Last night my hubby and I went and saw the new Leonardo DiCaprio film Inception. If you haven’t heard much about it, that’s good! I hadn’t either. GO SEE IT. It’s amazing, just like Shutter Island was. OMG I loved it! Totally trippy but great!

Tonight I’m going to try and get Wolfman at DVD Play (if Matt lets me!) but I may change my mind if I see anything better. My mom just saw it and said it was good so if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to get it. I also borrowed the new Alice in Wonderland DVD from my mom but haven’t worked up the desire to watch it yet. It’s gonna be one of those movies that I’ll like, I’m sure (cuz I’m weird like that) but have a hard time bringing myself to actually WATCH. You know what I mean! Like Everybody Loves Raymond! I never wanna watch it but I always laugh when I do!

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a super relaxing Saturday. Planning to post some cool pictures & maybe a fun game later this weekend, so stay tuned :)

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